The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-22

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herself beautifulp-and the review be.
gan. Theophilus was quite puzzled
which TO choose rs lie walked to and
fro among so many charming bcaut es.
AT length he paused before one named
Icasia, a resplendent beatty as well as
marvellous specimen of imperial wo.
manhood, and his eye seemed to say he
would look no furthur. Truly" said
he, rs he gazed upon the majestic
beauty, truly, women are dangerous
things" Icasia made answer: Yes,
sire, but in recompensc they sometimes
do great deal of good. This answer
seemed to displease the emperor. MS he
turned away. and the golden apple
which was almost in the hand of Icasa
was gwen to another beauty named
Theodore Disappointed, lcasa retired
to a convent, where she was eventually
far happier than her successful rival,
for Theophlus and Theodore did not
agree. They differed in matters o fire.
ligion, he being an iconoclast of the Sc
verest type us we'll as Il man of an UNI
govcrnablc temper, while she was quite
an ardent Roman Catholic, and thus
there was with them no union of soul,
After life of more or less strife Of
twelve years Theopnilus died, leaving a
widow to contend with n monster of
wickedness in the shape of hayward
son, the Emperor Michael. who inn
prisoncd his mother for life. For
years Theodore lived to envy the more
fortunate cousin, and to hourly mourn
that she herself had ever received the
unfortunate prize of the golden apple.
If the apple has done harm it has
also done some good in rccompense,
Every school-boy knows how much it
had TO do with the liberation of Swift
zerland from the tyranical yoke OF
Austria-though the story of William
Tell is doubted by some-as well as
that the fall of an apple upon the head
of Sir isaac Newton led him to the dis
covery of the law of gravitatiDn-an-
other story doubted by somc-but what
will your chronic doubter not doubtP
AS is we'll known, the apple was in
troduccd into Britain by the Romans,
and the first of the fruit which England
knew, had no such names as we have
now. but high-sounding titles such as
the Manlian, the Pompayan, the Tibcr-
ian. and the Claudian. etc. These old
Romans wished to live in memory as
having "doue the state some service"
in the introduction of the goodly fruit
to the conquered country. One of the
above apples-the "Claudian
on to the time of Elizabeth. Originally
it was n grcening, but having been
grated on the black mulberry, 1t is said
the juices of bitter fruit rose into the
apple, giving it most beautiful red
color, and was renamed Queen"
and its descendants can be found ~
some parts of Europe TO this day--a
matter which might be, as apple trees
have been known to bear fruit at the
age of 800 years.
In England it was long customary to
bless the new apples on July % (St.
James day. and on twelfth day to pour
a lbation of cider on the apple trees, a
custom supposed to be the relic of some
pagan time. The reformation knocked
the last remnant of paganism out and
we hear of the custom no more.
The kind of apple which Eve gave
Adam can not be known, and we must
leave it, with the Garden of Eden, in /,
doubt; but the apples spoken of by |
Solomon in his Song Of Songs were
most likely true citrons (CitrRs Nedicd), |
rs the apple proper does not nor did it !
grow in Palestine. Solomon describes |
we'll the citron, while he does not de-
scribe the apple in his "Canticles."
The apple seems not TO have been
generally cultivated in England down
to the time of Elizabeth, nor is it very
largely cultivated there yet American
apples meet with a ready sale at good
prices in English ports, and is profit
able crop to exporters.
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